[Kde-pim] Moving pim data to new kde install

[Denny Beyer]

On 3 November 2011 12:07, ianseeks <ianseeks at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be nice to have a "kontact" link directory that you could just
> copy and it pulled in all the various parts of the PIM together instead of
> having to search out all the disparate parts of it.
>
> No, that would totally dreadful. Who wants to keep their data from version
to version/on machine to the next by just simply copying one folder - or
things like a working migration path between versions? Think of all the fun
with problem solving, try and error games and manual editing config files.
That would have been destroyed just like that.
Seriously, no!

> regards
>
Ian
>
> Denny


> On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 10:24:10 Denny Beyer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > after a new installation, I started moving my existing data to the new
> > machine.
> > Here is the status of what I found out and got working so far.
> >
> > eMail
> > - not tried yet and not sure how to do it
> >
> > contacts
> > - all data is stored as single vcf files (one file per contact) under
> > .local/share/contacts/private/
> > - copying those files to the new machine to the same location and the
> > adding a new address - source in KAddressbook pointing to this directory
> > makes akonadi to crash
> >
> > calendar
> > - all calendar data is stored in .local/share/calendar/private which is
> an
> > vcs/ics - file
> > - copying those files to same location on the new machine
> > - adding a new calendar resource in KOrganizer (Kontact) and pointing to
> > the file (added as iCal file)
> > => Success: Calendar entries are shown as expected.
> >
> > notes
> > - still trying, no success yet. Lost all data several times already in
> the
> > past.
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Denny
> > _______________________________________________
> > KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/
> _______________________________________________
> KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/
>
_______________________________________________
KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/